Software Architect

WorldTicket is one of the world’s leading providers of IT solutions for mid-sized and regional airlines. Every year almost 10 million flight tickets are sold to passengers through our IT solutions. Our customers, the airlines, are located in Europe, Africa, and Asia and our +100 employees are distributed between our offices in Copenhagen, Warsaw, Kiev, Bangkok, and Beijing.

We are currently looking for experienced, innovative, and detail-oriented Software Architect to be based in our Kiev office. As a Software Architect, you will drive our projects from idea to go live and primarily work with one of our development teams in Kiev and Bangkok.

Your mindset should be to improve the user experience, and work processes and help them drive more sales. Your mission will be to know and understand the users and their requirements, innovate and invent work processes and the UI/UX in our sales and distribution platform. In addition, you will own the final result that is put into production and make sure it meets or exceeds the users’ expectations.

With a growing global team and a global customer base, we provide a highly dynamic and international work environment with daily considerations around different cultures, multiple time zones, and various business requirements internally and externally.

We work in an online agile environment, with teams in multiple locations, where the pace is high and daily interaction is a must.

Responsibilities:

Implementing business requirements through Java code

Delivering quality products (acceptance and integration checks on the real environment before passing the code to QA)

Be part of the product team to improve the product and collaborate effectively with PO, front-end developers, QA, and DevOps

Collaborate with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications

Use tools and methodologies to create representations for functions and user interfaces of desired product

Develop high-level product specifications with attention to system integration and feasibility

Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards

Communicate successfully all concepts and guidelines to the development team

Oversee the progress of the development team to ensure consistency with the initial design

Provide technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers

Ensure software meets all quality, security, modifiability, extensibility requirements, etc.

Approve final product before launch

Prepare IT solution documents compliant with the Enterprise Architecture principle

Assuring compliance of individual APIs with Public API technical standard

Collaborate with the development team on the definition of integration and business logic implementation principles

Support of architectural consistency and self-consistent technical decisions of the development team

Technological evangelism, spreading modern engineering, architectural, and design practices

Coordination of technical debt work, technical backlog management

Help the development team with technical problems and decisions

Mentoring and coaching of development team members in technical directions

Qualifications:

Proven experience as a software architect

8+ years of backend/full-stack coding experience with at least 5 recent years working with Java

Excellent knowledge of solution design, architectural analysis, and development

Familiarity with Live Data Processing, Scaling Enterprise Systems, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, Spring Boot and Hibernate

Multithreading, resource allocation, and concurrency understanding ability to write clean, extendable, and maintainable code

Will be a significant plus

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or computer science

Fluent spoken English with broad tech vocabulary

Exquisite communication and organizational skills

Being a team player

We Offer

You will join and work with a global team with ambitious colleagues in multiple locations. You will be able to communicate and work directly with our airline customers as well as with a variety of internal stakeholders.

We offer a fulfilling work environment for professional as well as personal development and a great opportunity to advance your qualifications and skill set from a job in the IT — and travel sector.

We offer a full-time position characterized by a competitive salary, based on skills and experience.

Application deadline: 30 Dec. 2023